A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself
$47.70
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
12 April 2021
Summary
The Unspoken Truths of Parenthood: A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself
‘There are some stories that require as much courage to write as they do art. Peter Ho Davies’s achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of fatherhood is just such a story … The world needs more stories like this one, more of this kind of courage, more of this kind of love.’ - Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend
When does sorrow turn to shame? When does love beco…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340980279 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0340980273 |
| Author: | Peter Ho Davies |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 12 April 2021 |
| Weight: | 305g |
| Dimensions: | 218mm x 142mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
There are some stories that require as much courage to write as they do art. Peter Ho Davies’s achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of fatherhood is just such a story. A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself enacts to profound effect the dark shames, fears, and absurdities that are an inescapable part of family life. The world needs more stories like this one, more of this kind of courage, more of this kind of love.
I never miss a new book by Peter Ho Davies and A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself is his best yet. A taut, raw, clever work of autofiction with a real beating heart, this is the audacious tragicomic novel about fatherhood and long-term love we’ve been missing.About The Author
Peter Ho Davies
Peter Ho Davies is the author of the novels The Welsh Girl, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Fortunes, and A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself and two short story collections: The Ugliest House in the World, winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys and PEN/Macmillan prizes, and Equal Love, which was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
His writing has been widely anthologized, including selections for Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories, and in 2003 he was chosen as one of Granta magazine’s Best of Young British Novelists. He has also won the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.
Born in Britain to Welsh and Chinese parents, Davies now lives in the US where he is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Michigan.
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